News

Palantir Has a Hand in NIH’s Most Ambitious Health Initiative

By Julia Métraux, Mother Jones [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.07.2026

During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

U.S. Federal

The Measured Listener

By Daniel Shanahan, Los Angeles Review of Books | 05.31.2026

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

U.S. States

These companies help parents try to pick their babies' traits. Experts are wary

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.06.2026

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

Genetic Selection

The start-ups dreaming of creating genetically modified babies

By Alexandre Piquard, Le Monde [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.22.2026

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

U.S. Federal

How I Hacked My Best Friend’s Genome — And Could Hack Yours Too

By Sharon Moalem, Medium | 04.15.2014
I was recently on a flight back to New York from London and was sitting one row away from Daniel...
Bioethics

The Baby Makers: Critics Push for Regulation of India's Booming Surrogacy Industry

By ABC, ABC | 04.15.2014

As more than 800 million Indians go to the polls this month, the main political party candidates are being urged...

Assisted Reproduction

Conceiving Identities

By Matt McCall, The Columbia Chronicle | 04.14.2014
When I was 7 years old, my father told me I was conceived through an anonymous sperm donation.

As he...
Biopolitics

Guarantee Privacy to Ensure Proper Treatment

By Jeremy Gruber, The New York Times, Room for Debate | 04.14.2014
It’s now over a dozen years since the mapping of the human genome was completed, and the pace of discovery...
Genomics

You Can't Clone Dogs Without Lots of Suffering - Why Scientist who Created World First 'Frankenstein Pet' has Quit

By Christopher Bucktin, Mirror | 04.12.2014
As she plays in the San Francisco surf, Lou Hawthorne’s mongrel dog Mira looks just likes any other.

Part Husky...
Bioethics

Human Rights Body Warns Over Mass DNA Screening

By Elaine Edwards, The Irish Times | 04.11.2014
A Government proposal which would allow the taking of DNA samples for “mass screening” of certain “classes”of individuals should be...
Other Countries

Pharma to fork: How we'll swallow synthetic biology

By Colin Barras, New Scientist | 04.10.2014
A REVOLUTION is brewing in Bulgaria – quite literally. In vats similar to those used to ferment beer, genetically modified...
Other Countries

Stocking the Genetic Supermarket: Reproductive Genetic Technologies and Collective Action Problems

By Chris Gyngell and Thomas Douglas, Wiley Online Library | 04.10.2014

Various technologies already exist that enable parents to determine whether their future children will have or lack certain genetic predispositions...

Human Genetic Modification